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Othello as a Tragic Hero

a noble falls, he takes a lot of people with him. Thats true here, where Othellos suspicion results in his destruction, as well as...

Comparative Analysis of Characters Mark Antony and Caius Cassius in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

John Proctor, a Tragic Hero

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

How “Oedipus Rex” Fulfills Aristotle’s Concepts of Tragedy

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

"Hamlet" and Suicide as an Important Theme

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

Enlightenment Views of the Reason vs. Emotion in Phadra by Jean Racine

reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...

All My Sons and Death of a Salesman

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

Downfall of William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Macbeth

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman as a Poor Role Model for Biff and Happy

model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...

Counseling Grieving Elementary Students

the typical approach, in that it addresses the depths of emotion, guilt, shame, anger and all other pertinent emotions associated ...

The Tragic Hero Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

This essay consisting of four pages considers how the protagonist satisfies the tragic hero criteria as defined by Aristotle offer...

Tragic Figure of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In 5 pages the concept of tragic hero as defined by Aristotle is examined within th context of the novel by Gustave Flaubert and c...

The Tragic Hero of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Sclarlet Letter is analyzed for the presence of a tragic hero. Using Aristotle standards the author of ...

Comparing and Defining Tragic Heroes

This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...

West Virginia's Pending or Recently Enacted Legislation

In three pages this paper discusses recent legislation in WV that has either been enacted or is pending. Four sources are cited i...

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Characters of Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay

In five pages these two female characters are compared. There are no other sources listed....

Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Compared

or Smiths point of view, letting the reader know the heroines thoughts, and then switching to the perspective of another character...

Thomas Woolf's 'Child by Tiger' and Graham Greene's 'The Destructors'

In three pages this paper compares these stories in terms of how evil dismantles society's goodness in each. There are no other s...

Virginia's Learning Standards Program

of Virginia experienced something of a "rude awakening" with the realization that the students graduating from its high schools we...

Slavery and Cash Crops in Virginia’s History

the 16th century, tobacco was already considered something of great worth. One author, Thomas Hariot, back in 1590, wrote A Briefe...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

Comparison and Contrasting of Dillard's Death of a Moth and Woolf's Death of a Moth

and it is not until it attempts to fly against the pane again, that she notices something different about it. The moths movements ...

Tobacco Culture in Virginia's Chesapeake Society

gentry (Vaughn, 2004). In other words, the Chesapeake, as Englands first major experiment in North American colonization, was a "t...

Comparative Analysis of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

"A Room of Ones Own" she presents the reader with the reality of frustration for women writers. She illustrates how women, in the ...

Virginia's Visually Impaired Resident Services

particular interest, given the topic of vision, is the PAIR program in the state of Virginia. This program offers a cooperative re...

Feminine Reading of Woolf's, A Room of One's Own

an intimate conversation among feminine equals. Men are excluded" (Marcus 79). She has, in essence, constructed an alternate fem...

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

The American With Disabilities Act Amendment

The intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act is the provision of social and economic justice for people with disabilities (St...

Angry Clients and What to Do

Almost one in 5 psychologists reported having been physically attacked by at least one client. Over 80 percent of psychologists re...

Palast: Armed Madhouse

(orange, red, sky-blue pink, whatever); the day Palast is discussing was an "orange alert" day, meaning it was "low threat" (Palas...